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Description

Giorgio Abetti (5); Adler Planetarium (3); Aircraft Radio Laboratory, War Department (2); Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. (5); American Association of Scientific Workers (2); American Astronomical Society [Joel Stebbins] (1); "American Defense" [California Institute, Huntington Library, Mount Wilson Observatory Group] (1); American Geophysical Union [Charles Franklin Brooks, letter re C. G. Abbot's proposal --includes carbons of letters from: Helmut Landsberg, Larry F. Page, Harlan True Stetson, Homer Woodworth Clough, & Chaim Leib Pekeris] (10); American Peoples Encyclopedia (11); Clifford Norman Anderson [includes typed manuscript "A Representation of the Sunspot Cycle", copy letter from John Adam Fleming, & copy typed ms. "Solar Radiation and Geomagnetism," by J. Bartels] (6); L. E. Armfield (2); Betty June Arnold (2); Astronomical Society of the Pacific (2); L. d'Azambuja (1)

Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date
1938-1946
Call number
mssPettit papers
Creator
Pettit, Edison (1889-1962)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Deposit; Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Collection, 1988.
Restrictions
According to a note in the papers, all personal correspondence of Edison Pettit (indicated in the contents list as "PETTIT PERSONAL") remains the property of the family and heirs of Edison Pettit. Before the personal property of Edison Pettit may be made available for public research, permission must be obtained from a family member. The Carnegie Observatories, as part of the 1987 letter of agreement, have given the Huntington Library the right to provide permission to publish from the remaining portion of the papers.
Associated people
Abbot, C. G. (1872-1973.)
Aitken, Robert Grant, (1864-1951.)
Babcock, Harold D. (1882-1968.)
Bateson, Frank M. (1895-1967.)
Brooks, Frederick A. (1873-1962.)
Coblentz, William W. (1866-1935.)
Frost, Edwin Brant, (1868-1938.)
Hale, George Ellery, (1882-1973.)
Joy, Alfred H. (1914-1993.)
McMath, Robert Raynolds. (1901-1976.)
Kopal, Zdeněk, (1891-1963.)
Menzel, Donald H. (1885-1972.)
Nicholson, Seth B. (1885-1964.)
Shapley, Harlow, (1877-1953.)
Stetson, Harlan True,
Wright, F. E.
Associated organizations
American Astronomical Society.
Carnegie Institution of Washington.
International Astronomical Union.
Popular astronomy.
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